Old English I (ca. 450-1150)

1. Sources of "English" culture and language
1. Celts
2. Romans
3. Jutes & Saxons
4. Vikings
1. First Wave: Looters
2. Second Wave: Colonizers



2. Characteristics of Old English



3. Our study of OE (and other historical periods of English) will concentrate on three aspects:
1. phonology
2. morphology
3. syntax



4. Old English Phonology



5. Old English Syntax I: Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives